“We eventually came to understand that ADHD is merely a symptom of ESSENCE (Early Syndromes Eliciting Neurodevelopmental Clinical Examination). Nobody had all the answers, but each one of the specialists we consulted added a piece of the puzzle in explaining my son’s behaviour and provided us with more insight.” A mother knows … When our …
I did not like being pregnant. I did not like the morning sickness that lasted all day and felt like a perpetual hangover. I did not like having a puffy, blotchy, ugly face. I did not like that my feet were forever hot and swollen. I did not like having to take my blood pressure …
Before I had my first child, I had expected I’d be a natural when it came to breastfeeding, because my mother was one. She had had four children and breastfed them all. She loved breastfeeding so much, she even became a lactation consultant for a while. But there I was, struggling. Anouk was 2.6 kg …
“It was a bad time for us as a family. I was at my wits’ end. Morale at home was low. We fought, we cried, we did research, we made plans to help him. Then a phycologist friend recommended that I take him to see clinical psychologist Dr Manfred Janik. This changed our world.” Grade …
